Congressmen support the abolition of the hated Priority Development Assistance Fund (or so they say), but—and this is a big but—they worry they will no longer be able to extend assistance to the sick in their district or continue their free college scholarship program.

These legislators are just fishing for sympathy (and who knows? support for the restoration of the pork barrel), but nobody’s biting. They can no longer divert funds in the name of farmers and fishermen. So it is the sick and poor students this time.

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